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Percy Jackson. You probably hate that name, after watching its film adaptation.

They got it all wrong, right from his opening scene underwater, his not-so-hyped up origin about being Poseidon’s son, the lack of explanation about the various camps in Camp Half-Blood and so on, till the end of the movie. Every chapter seemed to have been ‘hollywoodized‘. I watch many movies out of curiosity and I don’t feel bad about having watched this.

That is because the books were fun, Rick Riordan is quite a writer of teenage fiction books. I’ve read the first three in his series of Percy Jackson and found them equally enjoyable as the Inkheart Trilogy or The Inheritance Cycle. Right now, having found time and inspiration for revisiting a private library am quite fond of, I’ve laid my hands on the fourth book and its doing great in helping me erase those movie memories.

Boggis, Bunce and Bean from Fantastic Mr. Fox

And the following is how it begins,

Boggis and Bunce and Bean
One fat, one short, one lean
These horrible crooks
So different in looks
Were none the less equally mean.

Thorougly enjoyed watching Fantastic Mr. Fox (2010 movie, based on a book by Roald Dahl). The art, humor, plot, voice cast and the dialogs – all were excellent. A 10 from me for the entertainment!

(Pff, not that it counts coming from here anyway; but great job you studio folks)

Watched Avatar, and it seemed to me that James Cameron’s been busy playing popular video games ever since Titanic.

Movie was good at entertaining, although I had this thought; that in his focus of developing the alien ecosystem, he failed to improve ours in the time-line portrayed. Must’ve seen it in 3D to avoid thinking so much during a movie. Now to wait for the Avatar I know.

Well, that’s a year end coming up. Hope 2010 has a lot of surprises for you too

Update: Whoa! What’s this?! I like the sound of it, Jack Black-ish.

War Machine and Iron Man suits in the first Iron Man 2 Poster

Whiplash, Black Widow, War Machine and Iron Man. This is surely gonna be over-hyped

Saw this movie at the theaters today. A very nice concept packed into a slightly-bad movie with a good star cast.

The moment of the movie when the Earth actually stands still, was the best part among all other. Honestly I got interested in this movie only cause it had Keanu Reeves in its star-list. And he was pretty good as the visiting extraterrestrial. It’s kinda weird to say that, since it was only his body in use.

The movie should have had one scene of an actual speech. The people should have known why they were being hit by those forces. Instead, it ends abruptly leaving no cliffhanger. The visitor and his assistance, all just go away. The original 1951 movie had a better plot, with more details on the violence and harm humans caused. This was pretty fine otherwise, including humor just when it begins to get boring.

P.s. So the universe does have the cyclops, I suspected so for long!